Quote by Archie Shepp
Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existen

Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened. – Archie Shepp

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In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous. – Archie Shepp

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I dont like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones. – Brian Eno

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The Christian community latched onto a lot of my music, because there were a lot of things about my struggle they related to. But I didnt really want to come out and be identified as a Christian, because I didnt want to be a hypocrite, because my life wasnt right. – Scott Stapp

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Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself. – Truman Capote

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In music the passions enjoy themselves. – Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1886

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The half is greater than the whole. – Hesiod

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